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Title: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Suffix on June 24, 2008, 03:50:25 PM
(https://themushroomkingdom.net/board/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fiansuffix.kontek.net%2Ftmk%2Fmiyamoto_cheung_modified.jpg&hash=c5197210843535a1da77ded6ecdc090d) (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/st_15miyamoto#)
In a short interview with Wired Magazine (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/st_15miyamoto#), Shigeru Miyamoto discussed Nintendo's gamble with the Wii Remote, the semi-game nature of titles such as Wii Fit, and most amusingly, how quality control is conducted by saying "Oh, this looks like a Sega game. We need to make it look more like Mario."

Photo (http://www.wired.com/imageviewer/?imagePath=/images/article/magazine/1607/st_15miyamoto_f.jpg&imageCaption=&imageCredit=David+Cheung) by David Cheung
Link: Wired.com (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/st_15miyamoto#)
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Chupperson Weird on June 24, 2008, 04:12:05 PM
Wait, I thought Gunpei Yokoi invented the standard controller.
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: ShadowBrain on June 24, 2008, 04:36:19 PM
Yeah, people have kind of been going off on that. The general consensus is either that it's a mistranslation or this is just another part of the humiliation they made Yokoi endure after the VB's failure. My take on the whole thing? I just knew that "Nintendo" made it, so I can't comment.

Honestly, I think people are taking this a little too far. I think what he just meant is that he wants Nintendo games to always be unique. It's not like he's saying that being like Sega is a terrible thing. I mean, nagging voice acting, ending every level with a letter rating, and occasionally embarassing music isn't typical of Nintendo, but it's certainly not an outright sin.
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Glitchy on June 24, 2008, 05:08:33 PM
Why is there a BB code tag in place of an HTML tag...?

What? They're making a new Mario game? Complete with new worlds and levels?
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Nintendoobsessed on June 24, 2008, 05:16:23 PM
Quote from: ShadowBrain on June 24, 2008, 04:36:19 PM
Honestly, I think people are taking this a little too far. I think what he just meant is that he wants Nintendo games to always be unique. It's not like he's saying that being like Sega is a terrible thing.

Heh heh LOL. Whatever. I like taking it the way he said it. Go Shiggy!
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: nensondubois on June 24, 2008, 06:34:29 PM
Quote from: Chupperson Weird on June 24, 2008, 04:12:05 PM
Wait, I thought Gunpei Yokoi invented the standard controller.

Gunpei practically invented Nintendo. Everything now sucks because he died.
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Chupperson Weird on June 24, 2008, 07:37:19 PM
Have you seen anything Nintendo has done in the past 15 years?
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Nintendoobsessed on June 24, 2008, 08:39:55 PM
Quote from: nensondubois on June 24, 2008, 06:34:29 PM
Gunpei practically invented Nintendo. Everything now sucks because he died.

Uh...someones been eating a little too much Braindead Soup*...


*Made with REAL ****!
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: BP on June 24, 2008, 08:48:18 PM
That was certainly called for and necessary.

I'm with ShadowBrain (!!).
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Bag of Magic Food on June 24, 2008, 09:45:44 PM
Nintendo doesn't what Segadoes!
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Turtlekid1 on June 25, 2008, 11:56:43 AM
Or how about "Nintendon't what Segado"?
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: Toad on June 27, 2008, 09:12:09 PM
Quote from: Glitchy on June 24, 2008, 05:08:33 PM
What? They're making a new Mario game? Complete with new worlds and levels?

Where did you read that? I just read the "interview", which all of two to three questions with some-what short answers, unless I missed something..
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: jmdblazer on June 27, 2008, 11:04:42 PM
He was being glitchy.

Haha get it? oh never mind.
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: ShadowBrain on June 28, 2008, 08:36:10 PM
Maybe he meant "Wario"...

Quote from: Bird Person on June 24, 2008, 08:48:18 PM
That was certainly called for and necessary.
What was?
Title: Re: Miyamoto Reveals Business Strategy: Don't Be Like Sega
Post by: BP on June 28, 2008, 11:02:03 PM
The post directly above my own.